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Back MatterSource: Callaloo, Vol. 22, No. 3, John Edgar Wideman. The European Response: A Special Issue(Summer, 1999), pp. 713-761Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299800 .

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JACQUELINE BERBEN-MASI is a Maitre de Conferences at the UNSA-Law and Economics school, where she teaches English. Her doctoral dissertation on John Edgar Wideman's fiction has been followed by a number of articles mostly concentrat-

ing on the author in the text. She is a member of the CRELA, AFEA and CARR as well as the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Her interests include African and Commonwealth literatures, both in French and in English, as well as literature and the law.

KATHIE BIRAT has lived and worked in France since 1971. She holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MA in French from the University of California at Berkeley and a French doctorate in English literature. She is currently a maitre de conferences teaching American literature and particularly African-American literature at the University of Metz, where she has been teaching since 1976. Her publications in the area of African-American literature include articles on Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and the Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips.

MICHEL FABRE is Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne (Paris 3) where he headed the Center for African-American and Commonwealth Literatures until 1994. He is President of the Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Americaines. He recently published (With E. Margolies) The Several Lives of Chester Himes (University Press of Mississipi). In 1995, he published The French Critical Reception of African-American Literature (Greenwood Publishers); in 1993 Conversations with Richard Wright (University Press of Mississip- pi) with Kenneth Kinnamon. His current research projects deal with Creole culture in Louisiana.

MICHEL FEITH is a Maitre de Conferences (Assistant Professor) at the University of Nantes, France. He has spent several years abroad; his experience of living in Australia, Japan and the United States has sensitized him to the issues of multicultur- alism. He wrote a doctoral dissertation, under the direction of Professor Genevieve Fabre, on "Myth and History in Chinese American and Chicano Literature" (1995). Besides his interest in John Edgar Wideman, he is currently serving as co-editor, with Pr. Fabre, of two books on Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance.

YVES-CHARLES GRANDJEAT is a professor of North American Literature at the Universite Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III, where he co-heads the Research Center "Cultures et Litteratures d'Amerique du Nord." His doctorate on the Chicano Move- ment was followed by a variety of publications on Chicano historiography, sociology and literature, including the book Aztlan, Terres volees, terre promise (Paris, Presses de L'Ecole Normale superieure, 1989) and a collective volume on Ecritures Hispaniques aux Etats-Unis (Presses de l'Universite de Provence, 1992). He has lately contributed a number of papers on Afro-American literature, including articles on John E. Wideman, John A. Williams, J. Toomer, Charles A. Johnson, and the slave narratives.

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His interest in the work of John E. Wideman is also due to materialize into a book-

length study in the collection Voix Americaines headed by Prof. Marc Chenetier. FRITZ GYSIN is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of

Bern, Switzerland. He has written two books, The Grotesque in American Negro Fiction (1975) and Model as Motif in Tristram Shandy (1983), and has published articles on

Sterling Brown, Joseph Conrad, Leon Forrest, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Haw- thorne, Langston Hughes, Nathaniel Mackey, George Schuyler, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, John Edgar Wideman, and Sherley Anne Williams. He is working on a book about boundaries in African-American fiction. He is a founding member of the

Collegium for African American Research. CLAUDE JULIEN studied at Caen University. He defended his doctoral disserta-

tion, "Childhood and Adolescence in the African American novel, 1853-1970," in 1981. This study looks at theories on the acculturation of young African Americans from the contents of fiction approached as a discourse. He became a full professor at Tours University in 1989, where he teaches American studies. He has repeatedly taught in Great Britain and the United States as an exchange professor. He is a member of the Cercle d'Etudes Afro-Americaines and the Collegium for African American Research. His area of interest is minority fiction in the United States. He has recently been co-editor of a collection of articles on Jean Toomer's Cane (Paris: Ellipses).

FRANCOISE PALLEAU-PAPIN teaches American literature at University Franqois Rabelais, in Tours. A former student at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Fontenay-Saint Cloud), she completed her doctoral dissertation from the Universi-

ty of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle on Willa Cather. She has published articles on Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Mansfield, Patricia Eakins and Stephen Wright. She is currently working on Russell Banks.

CLAUDINE RAYNAUD teaches British and American Literatures at Tours Uni-

versity. After studying in France (Universite de Montpellier) and the United States

(University of Michigan at Ann Arbor), she wrote Metaphysical and Religious Poetry: Andrew Marvell, A Protestant Poet (Editions Messene, 1997) as well as a PhD on the

autobiographies of female African-American writers (Hurston, Brooks, Angelou, Lorde). Her publications also deal with Milton, Joyce, Lowry and feminist literary criticism. She published a book on Toni Morrison in 1997 (Editions Belin).

JEAN-PIERRE RICHARD teaches literary translation to postgraduates at the

University of Paris 7-Denis Diderot. He has just completed a doctoral dissertation on the figures of time in John Edgar Wideman's work. His published translations include

plays by Shakespeare, Djuna Barnes's Ryder, six novels by Paul West, ten volumes of

contemporary South African fiction (notably Njabulo Ndebele, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali, Ivan Vladislavic), a novel by Adam Shafi about Zanzibar (Kasari Ya

Myinyi Fuad, translated from kiSwahili) and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire and The Cattle Killing. He is currently working on a translation of Two Cities.

TATIANA WEETS teaches literature and civilization at the University of Paris IV- Sorbonne. A former Sorbonne student, she also studied at Smith College. She has

recently completed her doctoral dissertation on John Edgar Wideman at the Univer-

sity of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. She is currently working on several forthcoming articles dealing with contemporary American literature.

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JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN, a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, is author of numer- ous award-winning books of prose fiction and nonfiction prose, including Fever, Philadelphia Fire (1990 PEN/Faulkner Award), Reuben, Damballah, Hiding Place, Sent for You Yesterday (1984 PEN/Faulkner Award), Brothers and Keepers, The Cattle Killing, Fatheralong, and Two Cities. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).

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